Tuning price

[Alan Barnard]

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Alan Barnard
Salem, Missouri


> [Original Message]
> From: <A440A@aol.com>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Date: 06/20/2005 10:34:11 PM
> Subject: Re: Tuning price
>
> Greetings, 
>     I have a bunch of different tuning prices.  I charge the school $80
per 
> tuning, even if I go in the hall three days in a row and spend less time
on the 
> two following days.  Same price for the practice rooms and teachers
studios.  
> I have no benefit package with the school, it is all on oral contract. 
>     I charge the recording studios  $109.25. Or more, depending on what 
> happens.  Had one last week that needed to be dropped 12 cents and tuned
to the nth 
> degree for a master recording session.  I had 80 minutes before the 
> drum-sounds began.  I charged $125 for that.  I don't pursue this kind of
account 
> because of the time-pressure ratio ain't mellow enough for me, nowadays. 
But, they 
> do pop up at times. 
>     My regular, customers-in-their-homes I charge $125 to tune, and they
know 
> other stuff like pedal lube or minor regulation tweaks will increase
that.  
> This includes all the piano faculty and teachers I tune for at home. 
First 
> time customers are told, early on, that the first visit is a little
higher, 
> usually $150.   
>     Tunings go up to around $150 when I am out of town to tune, but it is 
> more likely that those tunings are going to accompany a fair amount of
other work 
> so an hourly price of $100 is more likely to just cover the tuning time
along 
> with all the rest of the work. 
>
> Regards,  
> Ed Foote RPT 
> http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html
> www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html
>  
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